Other Products That Could Use Cigarette-Style Warning Labels

Today, the Food and Drug administration unveiled upsetting new cigarette warning labels. The three dozen designs, which are featured on the agency’s Web site, “include pictures of a man smoking from a tracheostomy tube inserted into his throat; a diseased lung; and a woman holding a baby in a smoke-filled room. The proposals stayed away from some of the more gruesome labels used in other countries, where pictures of blackened teeth and diseased mouths are common,” The New York Times reports. We also noticed that in an apparent nod to the smoking sophisticate, there are Lichtenstein-light cartoon renderings of gloom-grayed addicts. By October of 2012, packs of cigarettes will be required to feature one of the 36 stickers. However, many other harmful goods are likely to remain label-less. We implore the F.D.A.—or appropriate government agency—to consider the destructive effects of the following products, all of which are legal and available over-the-counter.The following material, events, and services may be dangerous to your physical and emotional well-being:

• Mid-career Coldplay albums

• The reply-all button

• PerezHilton.com

• The professional success of Jonathan Franzen relative to your own career